Earth Cinema is a cut dug into the earth (45 m long), which people can enter from both sides. Inside, a long slit allows one to “see” the landscape, feeling a part of it. It is a narrow passage at the bottom, just 7 m wide, where Kapoor invites us to rediscover a sound, an echo of Mother Earth, to rediscover an image on the screen placed at the center of the slit’s side—where no moving figures appear, but rather reflections, shadows of the vegetation above. The work opens a new artistic perspective on the landscape, inviting the viewer to observe it from within. “It’s a work that has an architectural scale and requires a kind of physical response—it’s not made to be merely looked at but is an experience you live… The idea is that of the inside of the earth, of a cave… somehow you know it’s not a natural cave but a kind of man-made cavity… there is a dialogue between culture and nature.”
